Has globalisation has turned citizenship into a commodity?

Jalal is an Iraqi telecoms executive with fluent English and a Harvard degree. His wife is a surgeon. Well-off by any standards, they have always loved to travel, and have a particular fondness for Lake Como in Italy. But their Iraqi citizenship has often caused them visa problems.

The world's most powerful passport is held by inhabitants of Singapore

Inhabitants of the tiny city state of Singapore have the most powerful passports in the world, it has been revealed. But the usefulness of a US passport has fallen slightly since President Donald Trump took office, with Turkey and the Central African Republic becoming the most recent countries to revoke visa-free entry for holders.

'Everything is gentrification now' but Richard Florida isn't sorry

Fifteen years after The Rise of the Creative Class, the ‘rockstar of regeneration’ has seen his blueprint for urban creativity blamed for gentrification and inequality. Richard Florida says mistakes were made – but he regrets nothing